Undefeated Bengals Changing Script, Winning Games They’re Supposed to Win

November 6, 2015   ·   Tyler Duma   ·   Jump to comments

The Cincinnati Bengals always play down to their competition. The Bengals can't win big games. Andy Dalton falls flat in prime-time games. Those are all the played out narratives you heard coming into the team's Week 9 Thursday Night Football matchup with the Cleveland Browns.
To be fair, the Bengals certainly earned their reputation for shrinking under the spotlight.
A perfect example of this trend came just last year against this same Cleveland team.
The Bengals were supposed to win their Week 10 matchup with the Browns last year—that game also happened to be of the Thursday night variety. Instead, they were thoroughly dominated in every facet of the game and the Browns rewarded them with a 24-3 loss.
In the past, the Bengals used to do this pretty frequently. They'd beat some of the teams they were supposed to beat, they'd surprise us all and beat a team or two that they weren't supposed to, and then they'd blow a game or two where they ...

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